Recipe: Super-Simple, Reasonably-Healthy, Git-‘Er-Done Chili

October 30, 2019

You’re busy. It’s Halloween and you’ve got a crazy evening ahead. You need something easy for supper. Eating candy doesn’t count.

Enter: this super simple chili recipe. 

Disclaimer: I’m not saying it’s super healthy. Just super simple. You can pull this together in a few minutes. Stop by the grocery store and grab a few cans of this and that. You might already have all the other stuff already. There’s nothing exotic or hard-to-find in this recipe.

Ready? Let’s do this!

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 cup chopped onions
  • 3 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 cup chopped red pepper
  • 1 cup chopped green (or yellow) pepper
  • ¾ cup chopped celery (or not… I’ve made this without celery,  like, every time)
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 2 14-ounce cans diced tomatoes, with liquid
  • 2 15-ounce cans beans (black or kidney or both), with liquid
  • 1 14-ounce can corn (or 1 ½ cups frozen corn, because I never seem to have canned corn in my cupboard, but always have an old bag of frozen corn in the freezer, probably from icing someone’s injured knee or sumthin’), with liquid
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 ½ teaspoons dried oregano
  • 1 ½ teaspoons dried basil
  • Salt, to taste

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Heat oil to medium in a large soup pot.
  2. Saute’ all veggies until tender (about 6 minutes). Sprinkle with the chili powder while cooking.
  3. Stir in tomatoes, beans, and corn. Add the remaining seasonings, except salt.
  4. Bring to boil, reduce to medium-low
  5. Cover, simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  6. Add salt, to taste.

ADD INS (if you’re fancy or have other stuff in the fridge that you need to use up):

  • You could add sauteed carrots and/or mushrooms.
  • Maybe throw a can of sliced olives from the back of your cupboard. You know they’re in there. Reach… reach… there they are.
  • Top with cilantro, because really, chili is just a delivery mechanism for cilantro.
  • Top with Pepper Jack cheese… ‘cause who doesn’t love that?

Okay, that’s it. Easy peasy.

Have a fun evening!

What about you?

Do you have any go-to traditional dishes you serve for harvest season gatherings?

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